Sharayah Martinez

11/12/13

Blk 2 

Persepolis Responds Argument

In the graphic novel, “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi, is about government, society, economy, and the life of Marjane Satrapi. On November 5, 2013, a woman named Johan Bennett wrote a review/ request that they remove and ban the book from the schools and public library’s.

The graphic novel, “Persepolis”, was being taught to the 10^th grade literature level when a parent had pointed out the book had crass language, graphic violence, torture, sexual content, lewd humor, an instance of suicide, and other images that are not appropriate. Bennett decides to investigate for her and gets the same results. In Bennet’s opinion she says Marjane Satrapi is a horrible role model for our age group and that we shouldn’t be exposed to anything in this book yet.

To clarify my statements the only reason Marji rebels against her own government is to join in on demonstrations to serve a purpose in her country. Marjane in general has always been patriotic since she was 10.

In Iran, their government is basically a Totalitarism government, it’s very unfair, controls everything, sexist laws. Women were treated as abominations and prostitutes and were unable to wear anything but the veil, whereas for the men they also had a dress code but they would buy extremely tight close to provocative. Marjane is simply fighting in for her rights as a young lady soon to be a woman herself. Also the only reason why Marji was kicked out of many schools was because she stuck up for herself like her parents had taught her as a young girl. She didn’t know that Markus had just made her a drug dealer it wasn’t her fault.

In conclusion I disagree with what Johan Bennett had said. She only pointed out the negative parts of “Persepolis”. In my opinion Persepolis teaches responsibility, independence, and toughness to fight for your rights in hard situations. “Persepolis” should be taught to the 10^th grade literature. Most teens have a view of Iran as an evil country when in reality it’s really not.